A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant H. McGill

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Alexander Chase

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
Albert Bushnell Hart

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.
Mick Mars

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
Benjamin Cohen

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

I get really saucy after a few drinks. Sexy rude, not obnoxious rude.
Katie Price

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams

I have a rude thought every three seconds!
Lee Ryan

I lapsed into rude.
Dennis Miller

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
Bram Stoker

I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
Scott Baio

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
Dick Wolf

I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that's a buzz kill. There's got to be a better code of conduct, some basic etiquette.
Mos Def

If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
Pete Waterman

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.
Cindy Sherman

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Margaret Cavendish